"Auther says Harry Potter is gay"

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Is Reverend Graham Taylor famous in the UK?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

That is such a deliberately misleading headline

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard of him!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

People really need to get over this type of bullshit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Y KANT DAN SPELL?

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I've seen copies of his book in Smiths.

It is very misleading. My guess is that the kids "became excited" because they were laughing and thinking this guy was interesting and a bit naughty!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm a priest and I'm very careful about not offending people.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I already posted about this here but you don't care cause ur gay.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

do I not like that

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

People in America mistake "British" for "gay" all the time...though I don't know what this dude's excuse is.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Alba, I don't respond to threads that I have scroll down the New Answers page to find unless they feature that picture of Tyra Banks and Jennifer Love Hewitt brandishing their tits.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

where is that picture?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Is Reverend Graham Taylor famous in the UK?

Not exactly, but he's been one of that line of "The new Harry Potter" authors for a while.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

I don't really get why it's a misleading headline. What else did he mean? Am I missing something?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

"Author" + "Harry Potter" = J.K. Simmons.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

where is that picture?

Here it is, complete with the missing captions:

http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/tyra-JLH.jpg

(UPPER LEFT)
TYRA: TITS!!!!!
JLH: Tits.

(UPPER RIGHT)
TYRA: TITS!!!!!
JLH: Yep. Tits. Uh-huh.

(LOWER LEFT)
TYRA: TITS!!!!
JLH: ... Can I stop now?

(LOWER RIGHT)
TYRA: TITS, BABY! TIIIIIIIIIITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JHL: You know, this has been really fun, but I... I have to go now.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Wait, I don't understand what his supposed joke was. I mean, I've seen the Little Britain bit with the only gay in the village. But why would you put together a "Harry Potter's not the only gay in the village" catchphrase unless you'd just finished saying Harry Potter was gay?

(This actually sounds like he was all "My books are awesome, why do you kids read Harry Potter? He's gay and he fights wimps.")

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

er, Rawlings

xpost

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

(This actually sounds like he was all "My books are awesome, why do you kids read Harry Potter? He's gay and he fights wimps.")

That's exactly what it sounds like to me, too.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Nabisco, I think just saying "Harry Potter's not the only gay in the village" without introduction is just supposed to be a cute down-with-the-kids way of saying that he's gay.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Teachers brought Taylor's talk ... to a premature end, saying the youngsters had become "excitable," and asked him to leave.

"excitable" or "excited?"

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) Or that the character in his book is gay.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Or perhaps that he himself is gay.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Which might be what Alba said.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Or perhaps that's what Alba said.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

No, it wasn't! This story is not that complicated!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

But Alba, the guy tried to play the whole thing off by saying "it was a joke, it was just a line from Little Britain," as if he wasn't actually claiming Harry Potter was gay. Which is stupid. Because clearly he did claim Harry Potter was gay.

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I mean, that'd be like if I said "hey, you're fatter than Cartman from South Park," and then you got offended, and I was all like "I didn't call you fat, it was just a joke from South Park."

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

You have sand in your vagina.

― Cartman (GerryNemo), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I think he probably meant: "Look – I wasn't seriously saying Harry Potter takes it up the arse. I just meant, he's a bit of a wuss isn't he, compared with proper heroes like the ones in my book."

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Which is even more offensive, in a way. And I'm probably wrong in my whole interpretation, but I don't care cause I have taken a dislike to Rev Graham Taylor and want to sully his reputation in every way how.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

That would just be stupid, then: surely any intelligent adult knows that you can't openly tell children a children's character is "gay" and then be all like "I didn't mean gay gay, I just meant like lame gay." It shouldn't even take a half-second of thought to realize that.

― nabiscothingy, Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

But kids are exactly the demographic that do most use "gay" to mean lame or wussy. With the possible exception of liberal 20-somethings being ironic.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

But if you are savvy enough to know how kids use "gay," you are presumably also savvy enough to know how adults will react when you tell little kids that Harry Potter is gay.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Adults are gay.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

I think he probably meant: "Look – I wasn't seriously saying Harry Potter takes it up the arse. I just meant, he's a bit of a wuss isn't he, compared with proper heroes like the ones in my book."

"(Also, Harry Potter takes it up the arse. *wink*)"

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Um. At work it's not uncommon to use the phrase 'not the only gay in the village' simply to mean that someone isn't as unique as they think they are (viz. the character in Little Britain who likes to think of himself as a minority of one even in the face of incontrovertible evidence (for those who haven't seen it, it's funnier than I'm making it sound))

― Zora (Zora), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

But if you are savvy enough to know how kids use "gay," you are presumably also savvy enough to know how adults will react when you tell little kids that Harry Potter is gay.

Look, I'm not claiming this man isn't an idiot. Of course he is – he wrote a book called "Shadowmancer". I mean everyone knows that Shadowmancers haven't existed since the Council of Wyrms ordered their destruction after the second great Dragon Wars.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

(for those who haven't seen it, it's funnier than I'm making it sound)

Having seen "Little Britain" a few times, I dispute the veracity of this claim.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

x-post

Or what Zora said.

I'm now picturing a roomful of kids who, faced with the excitement of a vicar saying "the only gay in the village", run amok shouting Little Britain catchphrases at each other.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I guess we just need the context of the line, then. If he said "Harry Potter thinks he's very special ... but it turns out he's 'not the only gay in the village'" -- you know, one thing. "Harry Potter takes it in the ass ... and he's not the only gay in the village, cause Hagrid does, too" -- that's another thing.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm now picturing a roomful of kids who, faced with the excitement of a vicar saying "the only gay in the village", run amok shouting Little Britain catchphrases at each other.

I'm now siding even more strongly with the school.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

GP Taylor interviwed just now on channel 4: "The words bum and bogey are in the book, and I can't help it if they were offended by them, that's the language of the street"

― Masked Gazza, Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

That was the funniest 5 minutes of channel 4 news for quite a while.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

that's the language of the street

― The Ghost of Incapacitated With Laughter (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

OH MY LIFE that was hilarious.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I want to see this. I wonder if someone on uknova will offer a torrent.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 6 October 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

So after he left Aston Villa, he became a man of the cloth?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

"I didn't do it to sell my book, Jon Snow, as one of my ex-parishioners you would know that. I did it, the media have taken me up on this - I mean what are you doing here? Haven't you got any real news? I know you've got a boring Tory party conference on at the moment."

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh oh oh, until Gazza referred to GP Taylor I hadn't realized this was the author of that HAAARIBLE BOOK (didn't RTFA, y'see), Shadowmancer. AWFUL! Deceptive and awful and Christian lessons totally, totally shoehorned into the book and FORCED upon poor unsuspecting reader. Bad art, bad religion, bad all around. Gaarrgh.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if he meant that the books were just "like, totally gay."

....probably not.

also, T/S: Using "Gay" as a Noun

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

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